Many of the strong programs do automated testing against other programs. It is
possible to do without any support of a protocol, as Michael Reiss
does. Many of the
strong programs are exchanged at the competitions. I run test games
against Goemate
from time to time. Most of my recent test games are on IGS. I get about
20 games a day,
against a wide variety of opponents. I prefer not to tune against a single
opponent, since it
doesn't seem to help the playing strength as much.
At 07:42 PM 4/19/2001 -0400, you wrote:
Chris responds:
I know that modem play does not explicitly give away techniques of play. But
over 100,000 automated games, a learning engine will notice certain weaknesses
in it's opponent. That's what I was trying to say.